LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
nature failures. The numbers tell
the story: only 2.3 million American families have received assistance to help them avoid foreclosure, far short of the president’s
2009 promise to bring relief to
between 7 and 9 million families.
And Ben shows the awful reality
behind the abstract numbers: the
“cruel irony” faced each month
by families “paying an inflated
mortgage on an investment sold
to them as the soundest financial
decision they could make.” As he
puts it: “Sometimes the toughest
part of a journalist’s job is tracking
down a person whose experience
properly illustrates a story. Finding people who feel they have been
screwed by their mortgage company, though, is distressingly easy.”
As we enter the last week of
the campaign, Jon Ward puts the
spotlight on the three debates
that drew millions of TV viewers
and gave new life to the floundering Romney campaign. We see
just how much the R